Board and Company Action ● The Board shall act on the Committee’s recommendation and determine whether to accept or reject the director’s resignation. In acting on the Committee’s recommendation, the Board shall consider all of the factors considered by the Committee and such additional factors as it deems relevant. ● Following the Board’s determination, the Company shall publicly disclose in a document furnished or filed with the SEC the Board’s decision of whether or not to accept the resignation and an explanation of how the decision was reached, including, if applicable, the reasons for rejecting the resignation. General ● A director who is required to tender his or her resignation in accordance with this policy shall not be present during deliberations or voting of the Committee or the Board regarding whether to accept his or her resignation. Prior to voting, the Committee and the Board shall afford the affected director an opportunity to provide the Committee or the Board with any information that he or she deems relevant. ● For purposes of this policy, the term “Committee” means (i) the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, provided none of whom is a director who is required to tender his or her resignation in accordance with this policy, or (ii) if clause (i) is not satisfied, a committee of at least three directors designated by the Board, each of the members of which is an independent director and none of the members of which is a director who is required to tender his or her resignation in accordance with this policy. However, if there are fewer than three independent directors then serving on the Board who are not required to tender their resignations in accordance with this policy, then the Committee shall be comprised of all of the independent directors and each independent director who is required to tender his or her resignation in accordance with this policy shall recuse himself or herself from the Committee and Board’s deliberations and voting with respect to his or her individual resignation. ● The foregoing procedures shall be summarized and disclosed each year in the proxy statement for the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders. |